| Creator |
Browne, John C. (John Coates), 1838-1918, photographer. |
| Title |
Photograph album [graphic] / John C. Browne. |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1877-1880 |
| Date |
1877-1880 |
| Physical Description |
1 album (184 photographs): albumen; album 23 x 19 cm.(9 x 7.5 in.) |
| Description |
Photograph album belonging to Philadelphia amateur photographer John C. Browne. Contains landscape and architectural views
of the Delaware Valley and Central Pennsylvania, informal portraits of family and friends, and canal boat excursions of the
Photographic Society of Philadelphia, including over the Pennsylvania Canal to Harrisburg (1879) and Morris Canal (1880).
Images depict "Bartram's house, Gray's Ferry"; Cobbs Creek, including the Old Powder House; Wissahickon; Jay Cooke's Ogontz
estate; Mill Creek (Lower Merion Township); the Philadelphia Zoo monkey house; Chelten Hills; Laurel Hill; Delaware Water
Gap, including G. W. Childs arbor, Kittany House, Promontory, Lovers Leap, Young's Peak, and Mt. Minsi; falls, creeks, and
Dingman's Ferry in Pike County, Pa.; sites along the Juniata Division of Pennsylvania Canal, including mill races, iron furnaces,
Pennsylvania Rail Road bridges, and canal locks at or near Bridgeport, Dauphin, and Rockville; and sites along the Morris
Canal, including canal boat planes and hoisting tower, Hopatcong Lake, Little Falls, and Passaic Falls.
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Other images show the English Cottage on the Centennial grounds (1877); strung hunted game and fish; landscape views of Sea
Bright and Belvidere, N.J. and the Delaware near Torresdale; a posed "sweethearts" scene "On the Pennypack" (1878); and a
group portrait of the Photographic Society (Samuel F. Corlies, Charles Pancoast, Charles Barrington, Samuel Sartain, Joseph
William Bates, W. S. Vaux, Dr. Carl Seiler, Thomas H. McCollin, Thomas B. Craig) with cameras and fishing equipment during
the Morris Canal excursion. Other portrait views include Mr. and Mrs. S. Fisher Corlies, Mamie Lloyd, Sallie Bacon, Jesse
S. Graves, Alice E. Browne, Susie Hacker, Samuel Fox, and Charles Palmer. Some photographs show a photographer using his camera
and several of the canal excursion views include the canal boats "Zuleika" (Pennsylvania Canal) and "Katie Kellogg" and her
mule team "Tom & Baby" (Morris Canal).
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| Notes |
Front free end paper signed John C. Browne. |
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Photographs identified by inscriptions below images. Majority are date and some annotated "Washed Emulsion." |
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Red cloth binding, with gilt, and stamped on cover: Album. |
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Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
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An article by Browne, "The Waterfalls of Pike County, Pa.," describing a trip to photograph natural scenery in Pike County
appears in Philadelphia Photographer, Vol. XIII, no. 151 (July 1876), pages 208-211.
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LCP AR [Annual Reports] 1989 p. 33-34. |
| Biographical / historical note |
Browne was a founder of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia. |
| Subject |
Bartram, John, 1699-1777 -- Homes & haunts. |
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Pennsylvania Railroad. |
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Philadelphia Zoological Garden -- Buildings. |
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Photographic Society of Philadelphia -- People. |
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Photographic Society of Philadelphia -- Social aspects. |
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Canals -- Delaware River Valley (Pa.) |
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Canal boats -- Delaware River Valley (Pa.) |
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Travel -- Delaware River Valley (Pa.) |
| Geographic subject |
Cobbs Creek (Pa.) |
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Delaware River Valley (Pa.) -- Pictorial works. |
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Delaware Water Gap (N.J. and Pa.) |
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Morris Canal (Pa.) |
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Ogontz (Pa. : Estate) |
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Pennsylvania Canal (Pa.) |
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Pike County (Pa.) |
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Wissahickon Creek (Pa.) |
| Genre |
Albumen prints -- 1870-1890. |
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Landscape photographs -- 1870-1890. |
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Photograph albums -- 1870-1890. |
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Portrait photographs -- 1870-1890. |
| IMPRINT |
PA. Philadelphia. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| albums [P.9317] |
| Accession number |
P.9317 |
